This film explores the incredible achievement by the engineers and navvies of the mid-Victorian period who designed and built the viaduct at Ribblehead and the legendary tunnel at Blea Moor. There is more fascination about this great viaduct than any other facet on the wonderful Settle-Carlisle Railway.
Britain’s best-loved railway, with its route over the "roof" of England, is the spectacular Settle-Carlisle railway (called "the line that should never have been built"). Running through some of the most breathtaking scenery in Britain, it takes in the architecture of bridges and viaducts en-route.
The very special Somerset and Dorset Class 7F 2-8-0s. Their working lives were spent entirely on the famous Somerset and Dorset Railway and such was their charisma that two examples, 53808 and 53809, have been saved for posterity.
Filmed mostly in 1965, the final year before its closure in March 1966, this journey takes the viewer on the line from Bath to Evercreech Junction, then along the branch to Highbridge and Burnham, before returning to the main line to continue a journey southwards from Evercreech to Bournemouth. F...